...As you recall, my grad school alma mater is famous in college football circles for abandoning the varsity/scholarship model in 1939. One of my favorite SI articles is the one by Hutchins in 1951 where he laid all that was wrong with college football out for all to see.

Streams. This shit is already in UBIT territory (unrelated business income tax).

The second whatever you proposed happens it will behoove the ivys to say “hold my Cabernet” and start buying pro teams. There will also be litigation. This is the most dimwitted meat headed way to go and it’s sad there are intelligent posters on here who can’t see further than this step in the downfall of college football.

Call it, for instance, the NCAA. Let the revenue addicts and southern rednecks take their ball and play elsewhere.

it's just a matter of where the exit leads.

on what the bifurcation looks like.

Its not like Nd borrowed to build crossroads. They are in the middle of a $10B capital campaign. They'd be entirely fine without big money college football.

I don't know.

You're probably right in that it depends on the circumstances, but I can pretty much see ways to justify just about anything.

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